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How Does The Financial Condition Of Company Will Affect Capital Structure

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the financial condition of company will affect their investment directions such as the project with product quality enhancement. So the incentives of investing can be affected by company financial conditions. In addition, the product and input market interactions also can affect company financial condition such as how the firm dealing with product recall and recovering from the recall. Maksimovic and Titman (1991) also argued that debt financing will affect their incentive in investing high quality or enhancement product because the debt financing make company more pressure on cash flow and cutting cost for getting short term profit and in case of bankruptcy. Titman (1984) also mentioned that the relationship between firms and suppliers …show more content…

Trade off theory and pecking order theory are explaining the capital structure more accurately. Following this, more researches about these two theories will be discussed. Scott (1976) studied that there exists the optimal capital structure in the static trade-off theory, which is optimal balancing between the benefit (tax shield) from interest payment for debt financing and bankruptcy cost. In addition, there are also some empirical researches about trade-off theory. Frank and Goyal (2008) found that with the increasing of leverage, the earnings is increasing too. In opposite, some study has different opinion. Timan and Wessels(1988) predicted that a negative relationship between leverage and earnings. The trade-off topic was more popular after the opposite opinions. Then the dynamic trade-off theory has been found. The dynamic trade-off theory suggests optimal leverage structure analyse the relationship between tax and bankruptcy cost in a dynamic framework when companies face external financing costs. The basic expectation of trade-off theory is the existence of target cash holdings and the company will continue to adjust to this target level when the deviation occurs. The traditional trade-off theory does not take into account the adjustment cost caused by capital market flaws and the company's risk in different deviations situation. In short, the static trade-off theory focuses on how the firm determines

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